1. I wrote about the Hugo Awards mess here http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121554/2015-hugo-awards-and-history-science-fiction-culture-wars … but there is something more to say about why slate voting is wrong.
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2. Taste is individual, not collective. Awards are an attempt to reach a collective decision on taste, but slate voting disrupts that.
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3. Slate voting makes no sense because it is impossible for even a small group of people to have exactly the same taste, let alone a mob.
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4. A concrete example: my wife & I have very similar tastes. But if we read same 30 novels a year, we wouldn't come up with same top 5 list
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5. We wouldn't have same list because despite similar tastes we are in the end two different people. Taste is personal.
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6. If my wife & I wouldn't come up with same nomination list, how could hundreds of Sad or Rabid Puppies do that?
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7. The nomination process works on the wisdom of crowds, which the final vote winnows to a winner. Slate voting undermines.
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8. For slate voting to be honest, you'd have to have hundreds of Sad & Rabid puppies having exact same taste in all categories.
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9. Since it is impossible that hundreds agree exactly on all those categories, slate voting reflects not taste but a political consensus.
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10. The Sad Puppies slate & the Rabid Puppy slate are political lists by their very nature, not reflections of personal taste.
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11. In subverting personal taste for a political agenda that makes the Sad & Rabid Puppies belie their own stated agenda.
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